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Mooncake Master [Review]

The perk that I truly enjoy as an Indonesian of Chinese descent is celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. Well, we don’t really celebrate it like a party. But it’s a time synonymous with mooncakes. Sharing the cultural ties with the Chinese community in Singapore, it feels fitting that a game centred on this tradition was born: Mooncake Master.

Snow Planner [Preview]

by Stephan Sonny

Snow Planner is, at its core, a game of simplicity. Everything lies on the table. It’s straightforward generating resources to pay and optimising our moves with it. Despite the straightforward nature, it still offers a bit of complexity. Just a sprinkle of it. And let’s not confuse the simplicity and less complex bits with a lack of depth. Complexity itself is not linear with the latter part.